Kato Tadafumi｜Juntendo University

Department of Molecular Pathology of Mood Disorders

1988	M.D. The University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine
1988-1989	Resident, Department of Neuropsychiatry, The University of Tokyo Hospital
1989-1997	Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Shiga University of Medical Science
1995	Ph.D. Shiga University of Medical Science
1995-1996	International Visiting Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine
1997-1999	Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine
1999-2000	Lecturer, The University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine
2001-2018	Team Leader, Laboratory for Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
2018-Present	Team Leader, Laboratory for Molecular Dynamics of Mental Disorders, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
2019-2020	Deputy Director, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
2020-Present	Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine Director, Center for Mood Disorders, Juntendo University

Search for the roles of paraventricular thalamic nucleus in pathophysiology of bipolar disorder
Development of new mood stabilizers

Bagge EK, Fujimori-Tonou N, Kubota-Sakashita M, Kasahara T, Kato T* (2020) Unbiased PCR-free spatio-temporal mapping of the mtDNA mutation spectrum reveals brain region-specific responses to replication instability. BMC Biology 18: 150
Kato TM, Fujimori-Tonou N, Mizukami H, Ozawa K, Fujisawa S, Kato T (2019) Presynaptic dysregulation of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus causes depression-like behavior. Scientific Reports 9: 16506.
Kasahara T*, Takata A*, Kato TM*, Kubota-Sakashita M, Sawada T, Kakita A, Mizukami H, Kaneda D, Ozawa K, Kato T (2016) Depression-like Episodes in Mice Harboring mtDNA Deletions in Paraventricular Thalamus. Molecular Psychiatry, 21: 39-48
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